Edwin Buzz Aldrin
Aldrin's Life By;Tyler Schmelzer
His Life
- Buzz was born in Montclair, New Jersey on Jan. 20, 1930
- He got his nick name from his sister, she couldn't say brother fully
- Edwin changed his name to buzz legally in his grown up age
Military
- He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1951
- He later became a Air Force officer
- In the Korean war, he flew 66 combat missions
First Person: Buzz Aldrin Discusses Moon Landing
Major Accomplishments
- Received doctors degree in astronautics in 1963
- Later that year year he became a astronaut
- He piloted Gemini 12 space flight in 1966
- Left the spacecraft, "walked" in space
- Buzz was outside the spacecraft for 5 1/2 hours
- Was the second person ton set foot on the moon
- Neil A. Armstrong and him landed on the moon with the Apollo II Lunar Module on July 20, 1969
- Aldrin stepped on the moon 19 minutes after armstrong
- Resigned from astronaut program and returned to active duty with the Air force
- After retiring from everything, Buzz is still living life large
- He created a computer strategy game called, ''Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space''.
- In 2011, he appeared himself in the movie film: Transformers:Dark of the Moon
Resources
Morring Jr, F. (2012). World book Encyclopedia.
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